August 3, 1999.

My mom's sick today. It's not a surprising development: she works a lot of nights and she's been having a great deal of trouble sleeping lately. Fatigue throws a party for opportunistic illness, dontcha know. I'm trying to stay on her good side. It's not hard...I go to the store to get chocolate, prepare dinner, bring her tea, take care of dishes & laundry and generally act sensibly and pleasantly. No, not hard at all. There's a kinship that comes from household chores done cheerfully.

Domesticity is something I've been working on generally. I'm a bit out of practice - haven't lived on my own since April - but I find that our modern conveniences take much of the sting out of the daily grind. Imagine! A dishwasher! You mean I don't have to fish mismatched dollar store dishes out of ice-cold standing water filled with coffee grounds? You mean I don't have to haul my laundry down street? What bliss!!

I figure that it's a good idea to get used to this sort of thing, as I'll have to hit my parents up for tuition in 3 weeks. I'll be able to pay them back once I get that sweet temping job in September (hush, you), but right now I'm working from a position of disadvantage. Such are the wages of sponging for a season.

I've been working on my other site in a typically sporadic fashion. Yesterday I pulled the whole thing down after I realized that I could no longer bear to visit it myself, let alone display it as fruit of my best labour. It's not that the content is so bad, it's just that I'm utterly sick of the design. Problem is that I don't have that many ideas on improvement.

But at the very least, a massive updating needs to be performed. I wish I hadn't ignored the thing for so long...it just makes things all that more awkward.

Speaking of awkward, I've been screwed out of my username. I spent...oh...2 1/2 years building up the pseudonym of Tisiphone, and now that Yahoo! has taken over Geocities! I can't have that name anymore. And of course all the good names are taken. My solution was typically camp: pinkbagofjustice@yahoo.com. Somewhere my Little China Girl is smiling.

But I can never write from the tisiphone addy again. That was the only reason I'd stayed with Geocities: to retain the pseudonym. I'd like to be Tisiphone somewhere else, but the thought of changing the email addy on all of my pages makes my shoulders ache.

Still, it'd mean an end to the pop-ups. Maybe someone will pay for a couple months at Dreamhost for my birthday (only 5 more shopping days!).

Saw Blair Witch again last night. Much, much scarier this time, likely because I didn't have massive stomach cramps last night. When Heather lost the camera at the end, I almost screamed. But I didn't have any problems sleeping. Go figure.